Category Archives: Military Industrial Complex

It’s my assertion that whenever “The Enemy” wishes to enter peace talks, it’s “The West” that refuses terms and responds with violence. The CIA assassination of TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud is the most recent example of this long standing policy of blatant aggression.

The Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently invited Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan for high level, direct peace talks. Days before the meeting and in direct violation of Pakistani sovereignty, the CIA assassinated Mehsud along with 25 other people in a drone bombing in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of northern Pakistan.

The context for the drone strike has to raise the question of whether John Brennan, head of the CIA, is deliberately attempting to forestall any peace in the region. Why was Hakimullah Mehsud killed when he agreed to peace talks?

In June 2011 Radio 4′s Today Show had a very interesting discussion withMichael Semple, the former Deputy to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan and a key proponent of talking to the Taliban. Here’s what he had to say on the subject:

Western military theory is based primarily on Carl von Clausewitz’steachings, what is taught in every single military academy is;

“War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means”

The Afghan War Logsshowed the true nature of the Afghan War, one that the media doesn’t report on.

Is it democracy that keeps western nations at war? Or the armies and the vested interests now massed behind them?

A burgeoning defence establishment, backed by large corporate interests, would one day employ so many people as to corrupt the political system. (His original draft even referred to a “military-industrial-congressional complex”.) This lobby, said Eisenhower, could become so huge as to “endanger our liberties and democratic processes”.

I wonder what Eisenhower would make of today’s America, with a military grown from 3.5 million people to 5 million. The western nations face less of a threat to their integrity and security than ever in history, yet their defence industries cry for ever more money and ever more things to do.

The cold war strategist, George Kennan, wrote prophetically:

“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.”

That adversary is Islam and virtually every single country that has a large Muslim population.

The war on terror has fulfilled this prophecy fears, as Britain has followed America’s lead and sunk into a swamp of kidnapping, torture and imprisonment without trial.

The belligerent posture of the US and Britain towards the Muslim world has fostered antagonism and moderate threats in response. The bombing of extremist targets in Pakistan is an invitation for terrorists to attack us, and then a need for defence against such attack. A self fulfilling perpetual cycle of violence.

Meanwhile, the opportunity cost of appeasing the complex is astronomical.

“Every gun that is made is a theft from those who hunger”

For each long range cruise missile and bomber built a hospital ward and a classroom in Britain doesn’t get built.

As long as bullets are fired in war, there will be a company profiting from their sale, with the invention of the global war against terrorism, it provides a blank cheque opportunity for the defence industry – the military industrial complex – the scenery maybe variable – Iraq or Afghanistan – the money source remains the constant and the end result remains constant.

Yet your average Daily Mail reading Britain will be fed the myth that “they hate us for our freedom & democracy”.

It’s because our militarised media is so strong that no one will believe that it’s possible that our armed forces are capable of committing such evil acts such as breaking into people’s homes, killing them while they slept and then burning their bodies.

It becomes hard to be taken seriously if you are talking peace, yet continue to kill the people you want to bring to the negotiating table.

War is a conduit to achieve a political objective, if you have no political objective to achieve, or the remit is changed regularly as has been the case in Afghanistan, then you are in a perpetual state of war, a never ending war, that has no end game in sight.

What will Liam Fox, the former disgraced Defence Secretary, be doing this weekend?

He’s one of the chief guests at the Bahrain Symposium, that’s designed to rally Western opinion to the side of the Bahrain government in its struggle against street protests and civil rights demonstrations.

The participating institutions and key note speakers read like an A-Z of the Neoconservative directory, with the overlord himself, George W Bush’s ambassador to the UN and war-monger supreme John Bolton given top billing.

Be under no illusion as to which direction Bahrain is being pulled – further into the direction of America.

Which begs the question why has the FCO and our Government sanctioned Liam Fox to speak at this event?

The actions of the FCO have not gone unnoticed by Sarah Leah Whitson, the Director of Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa Programme, who was scathing in her assessment of the governments aims in the region:

Ambassador Iain Lindsays’ only comments echoed statements from the regime about Iranian involvement in Bahrain. Speaking to the regime owned Gulf Daily News, he said:

“Iain Lindsay also said there was “increasing evidence” that Iran was “providing support to people here who are bent on violence”

While the Ambassador sits in the palace telling the King what to do, it leaves many British Muslims questioning the role of our Government with regards to the ongoing democracy movement and creates a real sense of anger that the UK’s Ambassador would echo the Government’s main line of attack against the opposition.

They have regularly called on opposition figures to denounce terrorism, despite it already happening, played up talk of reforms and of course regularly blame Iran for “instigating protests and violence” in Bahrain.

With the Neocons having their public relations pow-wow this weekend in Manama, one really has to question what our Government means when they throw around terms like freedom, democracy, justice and supporting human rights.

Mali, Algeria, Somalia, Libya, Congo, Egypt – Africa burns as The West launches yet another war for the control of natural resources and political domination.

It comes with a dreaded irony that fifty two years ago this week, President Dwight D. Eisenhower used his farewell speech to the nation to warn the country against the rise of what he called the military-industrial complex.

Sadly, his words, though they became iconic and well-remembered, were not heeded and his warning is now more relevant and critical than ever.

It is the coming together of vested interests across the military, politics and multinational corporate giants that dictate war is a booming business, especially in a time of western economic crisis.

Perhaps we should remember the role of Margaret Thatchers son, Mark “Scratcher” in the failed coup d’état attempt in Equatorial Guinea, along with his Etonian old boys, amongst them former British Army officer and mercenary Simon Francis Mann.

And as I sat here writing this, with the Channel 4 News playing in the background, Krish Guru Murthy, happens to mention in passing that “British mercenaries, the Stirling Group – are the on ground in Algeria offering advice & assistance”, of course it was mentioned in passing, as if it were purely irrelevant.

As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which western powers – over the last four years alone – have bombed and killed Muslims – after Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and the Philippines.

“across the countries which directly border Mali, there are sizeable assets at stake in the form of mines and gas fields….Niger supplies 7.5 per cent of the world’s uranium according to the World Nuclear Association, much of it to France”

In fact, France are actually so broke that the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has been going cap in hand to gain funding for their war, from non other than……“Rich Arab Gulf states in The Emirates”

“NATO’s strategic interests in North Africa, described in 2007 by State Department adviser J. Peter Pham as “protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources… a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment”

The man that put the bullet into Gaddafi’s head was French secret service, sent by French President at the time Nicolas Sarkozy.

Why?

To ensure Gaddafi would never make it to an open court and start talking about his cosy relation with western leaders.

Other former western leaders, including ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were also extremely close to Gaddafi, visiting him regularly and helping to facilitate multi-million pounds business deals.

“It’s the way money works that has locked us into an inevitable collision of two mutually exclusive operating principles. A manmade requirement for infinite growth that collides with a man-sustaining and unyielding finite planet resources”

The lands that are portrayed as “The Third World” are heavily rich in natural resources. What they lack is the technology owned by the western nations to extract and commodify the abundance of mineral wealth that lies a few metres below their feet.

Companies such as Google, Vodafone & Starbucks are paying little or no UK tax and making “sweetheart” deals with tax authorities. Why is it that Petro giant Shell has met with high ranking ministers within the Business, Culture, Energy and Climate Change departments, with at least 56 official meetings in the last 18 months?

The often crowed myth of us being a representative democracy is a lie. We are not a democracy, we are a plutocracy.

A plutocracy in which we see the coming together of military and economic interests to gain what they crave the most – money.

John Pilger – Breaking The Silence, Truth And Lies In The War On Terror

It’s been eleven years since 9/11, while 2,916 people died on that day, Millions have been killed & felt the wrath of America’s revenge in the ensuing wars. That one event of 9/11 has been used to justify every single bit of criminal action committed by the US & her junior partners ever since.

You see if I had the power of Murdoch’s media behind me, I could endlessly play those reports until the whole world believed it to be the 100% unassailable truth.

America & her partners got more than their pound of flesh when they obliterated Iraq, decimated Afghanistan, pulverised Pakistan & turned the Muslim world into one sectarian driven nightmare. Any dignity or good will you had on THAT morning has long since evaporated.

Many media bods (propagandists) argue that if 9/11 was an inside job than surely someone would have broken ranks and spilled the beans by now.

Watch the above interview and see what Richard Clarke, the Chief Counter Terror adviser to the White House 1998-2002 had to say. If you don’t have time to watch the entire interview, watch from 09:00 onwards.

I’m pretty sure the mass media is not reporting the following, that the US never leave a country they invade, they still have bases in Germany & Japan, you know the second world war ended in 1945 right?

You don’t undertake a building project that’s larger than vatican city to leave it behind. The US embassy has everything Iraqi’s once had – clean running water, electricity, gas, security and hospitals – what they do not have, and will probably never have thanks to the invaders destruction of Iraqi infrastructure.

Whilst the US army flies off home, it’s to be replaced with another cowardly, thieving, murdering, paing and pillaging force of equal measure, the piece of shit mercenaries that were once Blackwater, then XE and now go by the name of ACADEMI.

Every bullet made, every missile fired, every gun lock and loaded is profit for the military industrial complex, it’s profit for the pro war lobbyists and the corporations.

And now the same war drums beat loudly for Israel again, this time Iran is fair game.

These lunatics really are going for another war – the dossiers, the presentations at the UN, the WMD’s, the palaces that were built on top of underground weapon facilities – the lies, the lies, the lies.

The onus, once again lies on our shoulders, do we want to see a repeat of Iraq?

Millions of us took to the streets in the run up to the 2003 invasion and it got us nowhere.

Millions of us signed petitions, and it got us nowhere.

There are only two things that this system understands and that is money and blood.

The Akh is currently away, he has not been raped and is currently working on a plantation picking bananas & has run out of PG Tips tea and is having to drink coffee. He returns sometime in January 2012

The bullshit Iranian assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador, a plot created by the Israeli’s to be executed by (US created) narco traffickers in Washington, with hundreds of dead freedom loving american patriots as collateral damage.

Can you smell the manure?

Being the sucker for punishment that I am, I’ve just finished watching newsnight where the BBC propaganda team allowed some pretty ludicrous claims by James Rubin (zionist) & an American stooge Iranian dissident to lay the groundwork as to why America and every single country in the world should go and bomb the shit out of Iran.

Lets be real the zionists are masters at getting goy to kill goy – so lets get the Americans who are butt buddies with the Saudi’s & every single other repressive, totalitarian regime in the Middle East to go kill the evil Iranians.

Hell, the Sunni ruled Arab Middle East wouldn’t have a problem with killing a million Muslim Shia, the rulers, not the people of course.

You can imagine the Saud king’s media right now looping the cleverly crafted speeches & evidence from the americans to kill Adel al-Jubeir, the saudi ambassador.

Right now I can’t believe that there’s no scepticism being expressed in the media. All the sheep are dancing to the same marching drum.

Remember the smoking guns that acted as triggers before for illegal invasions?

Yellow cake, aluminium tubes, 45 minutes…..WMD’s

So let’s just get this clear, of all the places in the world where Iran could kill a Saudi diplomat, it would choose Washington, DC, obviously. A place which is a nice cushy target, where there’s no security and one can just fly in and do a nice clean wet job.

Instead the fiendishly clever Iranian revolutionary guards (a bit like the oh so feared & nightmare inducing revolutionary guards of Saddam Hussein…that didn’t exist) they took a leaf out of the yankee handbook and outsourced it to a couple of local Iranian-Americans Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri and told them to get on with it.

Because when you need such a job done, that’s what you do, lurk around telephone booths calling the cards that have been left in there, hoping you might just get the bloody A Team to do the job for you.

So this gun for hire goes to Mexico and links up with a Mexican narco trafficker and asks him for an assassin, because they’ve got plenty of them lying around, who can sneak across the border and do the hit.

Then again, if I wanted Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador dead, I would have poisoned the ferrero rocher at his reception, no, stop, ambassador you’re really spoiling us…. or failing that, knowing how the Saud’s love themselves some young filipino & bangladeshi boys I’m sure a “sex game gone wrong” type of set up could have been put in motion.

If your intelligence has not been insulted, then you really are a dumb piece of shit.

Leave your contact details below as I have some magic beans that I want to sell you.

It’s ridiculous and this entire absurd scenario has to be dismissed for the lunacy that it is.

If you can’t smell a big, fat, lying dirty zionist rat behind this scheme to force the saudi’s or america to fight a war on it’s behalf, then there is no hope for you. Go stick your head in the oven now.

Oh and it’s coming up to re-election time for Obama, America loves a war president, and the rapist, murderer in charge of shit is desperate to be re-elected.

"Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil & believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And Allah hears & knows all things."
(The Qur'an, Al-Baqara, 2: 256)

“Political authority & religion are kin brothers, neither would stand but by its companion; because religion is the foundation of political power & its pillar, & political power is the guardian of religion; political power is not established with a foundation & religion cannot be implemented without authority.”
- Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

"War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means" - Clausewitz

"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)."
(The Qur'an, Al Hujurat, 49: 13)